Medical-Legal Partnership Impact on Parents' Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study

Journal Article
Written By NCMLP

Description

Families living in poverty face many stressors created and maintained by economic hardship and unaddressed legal and social needs. As medical-legal partnerships aim to address and solve unmet legal and social needs, this pilot study at Rutgers examines whether MLP-involved parents perceived themselves as stressed, to what they attributed their stress, and whether they reported a reduction in stress when their legal cases were closed. The study shows that, following a medical-legal partnership intervention, parents had improvements in perceived stress. The findings were published in Behavioral Medicine.

 

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Authors

  • Jennifer N. Rosen Valverde

  • Jeffrey Backstrand

  • Laurie Hills

  • Hanan Tanuos

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